| Description |
Throwing Techniques is a collection of more than thirty carefully selected projects from more than two dozen talented ceramic artists. Get your creativity flowing as you discover the secrets to making a variety of lidded, closed, and spouted forms; constructing large pieces; altering thrown shapes; and much more. Through the use of hundreds of step-by-step how-to images, master potters share their expertise so you can expand your skills and get the most out of throwing. The wide variety of outcomes that can be achieved with a spinning wheel is astounding. The selection of projects in this book are a testament to that variety, and the variety of methods that artists use to get to those outcomes. Some embrace the roundness of wheel-thrown pots, while others find new shapes; some throw parts to be assembled into totally new forms, and some throw forms only to remove darts to alter the natural roundness of the thrown form. No matter where you fall in this spectrum, you’ll find inspiration throughout this compilation. |